What is "deducibility"

Insurance \In*sur"ance\, n. [From Insure.]

1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.

   Note: The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is termed the insurer; the danger against which he undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form, the policy.
   --Johnson's Cyc.

2. The premium paid for insuring property or life.

3. The sum for which life or property is insured.

4. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [Obs.]

   The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection.
   --Mickle.

5. Hence: Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution; as, we always use our seat belts as insurance against injury.

   Accident insurance, insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person.

   Endowment insurance or Endowment assurance, a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also called whole life insurance.

   Fire insurance. See under Fire.

   Insurance broker, a broker or agent who effects insurance.

   Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death.

   Insurance policy, a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured.

   Life insurance. See under Life.

Insurance \In*sur"ance\, n. [From Insure.]

1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.

   Note: The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is termed the insurer; the danger against which he undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form, the policy.
   --Johnson's Cyc.

2. The premium paid for insuring property or life.

3. The sum for which life or property is insured.

4. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [Obs.]

   The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection.
   --Mickle.

5. Hence: Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution; as, we always use our seat belts as insurance against injury.

   Accident insurance, insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person.

   Endowment insurance or Endowment assurance, a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also called whole life insurance.

   Fire insurance. See under Fire.

   Insurance broker, a broker or agent who effects insurance.

   Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death.

   Insurance policy, a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured.

   Life insurance. See under Life.

Mallow \Mal"low\, Mallows \Mal"lows\, n. [OE. malwe, AS. mealwe, fr. L. malva, akin to Gr. mala`chh; cf. mala`ssein to soften, malako`s soft. Named either from its softening or relaxing properties, or from its soft downy leaves. Cf. Mauve, Malachite.] (Bot.) A genus of plants ( Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.

Note: The flowers of the common mallow ( Malva sylvestris) are used in medicine. The dwarf mallow ( Malva rotundifolia) is a common weed, and its flattened, dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree mallow ( Malva Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea), musk mallow ( Malva moschata), rose mallow or hollyhock, and curled mallow ( Malva crispa), are less commonly seen.

Indian mallow. See Abutilon.

Jew's mallow, a plant ( Corchorus olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria.

Marsh mallow. See under Marsh.

Jew \Jew\, n. [OF. Juis, pl., F. Juif, L. Judaeus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the country of the Jews, Judea, fr. Heb. Y[e^]h[=u]d[=a]h Judah, son of Jacob. Cf. Judaic.]

1. Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.

2. An adherent of Judaism.

   Jew's frankincense, gum styrax, or benzoin.

   Jew's mallow (Bot.), an annual herb ( Corchorus olitorius) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber.

   Jew's pitch, asphaltum; bitumen.

   The Wandering Jew, an imaginary personage, who, for his cruelty to Christ during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming.

   Wandering Jew, any of several house plants of the genera Zebrina and Tradescantia having white-striped leaves, especially the creeping plants Zebrina pendula and Tradescantia fluminensis.

Gemmification \Gem`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. gemma bud + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.] (Biol.) The production of a bud or gem.

Enquirer \En*quir"er\, n. See Inquirer.

Declivity \De*cliv"i*ty\, n.; pl. Declivities. [L. declivitas, fr. declivis sloping, downhill; de + clivus a slope, a hill; akin to clinare to incline: cf. F. d['e]clivit['e]. See Decline.]

1. Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.

2. A descending surface; a sloping place.

   Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters.
   --Derham.

Partridge \Par"tridge\ (p[aum]r"tr[i^]j), n. [OE. partriche, pertriche, OF. pertris, perdriz, F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. pe`rdix.] (Zo["o]l.)

1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicid[ae], of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.

   Full many a fat partrich had he in mew.
   --Chaucer.

   Note: The common European, or gray, partridge ( Perdix cinerea) and the red-legged partridge ( Caccabis rubra) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known species.

2. Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera. [U.S.]

   Note: Among them are the bobwhite ( Colinus Virginianus) of the Eastern States; the plumed, or mountain, partridge ( Oreortyx pictus) of California; the Massena partridge ( Cyrtonyx Montezum[ae]); and the California partridge ( Callipepla Californica).

3. The ruffed grouse ( Bonasa umbellus). [New Eng.] Bamboo partridge (Zo["o]l.), a spurred partridge of the genus Bambusicola. Several species are found in China and the East Indies. Night partridge (Zo["o]l.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Painted partridge (Zo["o]l.), a francolin of South Africa ( Francolinus pictus). Partridge berry. (Bot.)

   1. The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant ( Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiace[ae], having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself.

   2. The fruit of the creeping wintergreen ( Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself. Partridge dove (Zo["o]l.) Same as Mountain witch, under Mountain. Partridge pea (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb ( Cassia Cham[ae]crista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. Partridge shell (Zo["o]l.), a large marine univalve shell ( Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. Partridge wood

      1. A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called also pheasant wood.

      2. A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles.

         Sea partridge (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic sand partridge ( Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note.

         Snow partridge (Zo["o]l.), a large spurred partridge ( Lerwa nivicola) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia; called also jermoonal.

         Spruce partridge. See under Spruce.

         Wood partridge, or Hill partridge (Zo["o]l.), any small Asiatic partridge of the genus Arboricola.

Bribable \Brib"a*ble\, a. Capable of being bribed.

A more bribable class of electors.
--S. Edwards.

Fete \F[^e]te\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. F[^e]ted; p. pr. & vb. n. F[^e]ting.] [Cf. F. f[^e]ter.] To feast; to honor with a festival.

Deducibility \De*du`ci*bil"i*ty\, n. Deducibleness.

n. A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.

n. A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.

alt. The art and science of gems n. The art and science of gems

n. A muscarinic antagonist and antispasmodic, used in the methylbromide form.

a. Of or pertaining to thiobenzoic acid or its derivatives

n. A tinamou, ''Tinamus solitarius''.

n. (context mostly attributive English) Land that is not cropland.

n. (context biology English) The production of a bud or gem.

n. (land mine English)

n. (plural of synexin English)

n. (plural of fop English)

n. (plural of dynamitist English)

n. (context computing English) A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.

n. (plural of disappointment English)

n. Someone who rides a boogieboard.

n. One who nuzzles.

n. (context mineralogy English) An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing antimony, calcium, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, tantalum, tin, and titanium.

a. Describing a pelagic zone of the oceans between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones

a. Not criminological.

n. (alternative spelling of sea star English)

n. (alternative form of inquirer English)

n. (plural of declivity English)

n. (plural of brail English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: brail)

a. of, or relating to extropy n. An adherent or advocate of, or an activist for, extropy or (l/en: extropianism) and its goals or principles.

a. susceptible to bribery.

1. honoured, celebrated v

2. (en-past of: fete)

n. The condition of being deducible